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What isn't illegal but should be? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Smoking. Millions of euros of taxpayer money spent every year on those lung cancer patients which could be well spent elsewhere. It's also an activity that negatively affects not just the smoker but everyone around them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Smoking is something I truly despise, we all know that it is bad, really bad for you, we teach kids about it, yet people still start smoking.

Do as New Zealand did, set a cut off year, if you are born after 2015, you will not be permitted to buy tobacco at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

then have a right leaning government win the next election and roll it back https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/510439/smokefree-generation-law-scrapped-by-coalition-government

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Great. You've just made another illegal narcotic, a black market and a way of financing illegal activity.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'd agree with you on that if tobacco was completely banned, but banning from a specific age, seems like a fairly low impact.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

...and as time marches on?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

i hate tobacco but prohibition doesnt work.

we should have learned that lesson with alcohol and weed but it seems we did not.